{"id":936,"date":"2012-12-01T12:19:33","date_gmt":"2012-12-01T16:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=936"},"modified":"2012-12-01T14:15:19","modified_gmt":"2012-12-01T18:15:19","slug":"saturday-1-december-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2012\/12\/01\/saturday-1-december-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday, 1 December 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

11:19 –<\/span> We made a quick trip out to Home Depot this morning to pick up some shelf brackets and 1X12 boards to put up some shelves in the stock room. When we got back, I climbed up on the roof to rake the accumulation of leaves out of the valleys. Barbara’s out there now with her Lawn Lamborghini\u00ae vacuuming them and the rest of the leaves in the yard.
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Commenter JimC sent me a link to a fascinating site. While I was clicking around there, I came upon this article: What is the oldest audio recording of an expletive?<\/a>
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??? by inventors Sumner Tainter and H G Rogers. It\u2019s the eleventh day of March, eighteen hundred and eighty five. [trilled “R”]. How is this for height? Mary had a little lamb, and its fleece was black as soot, and wherever Mary went \u2026 Oh, fuck! \u2026 [trilled “R”] Mary had a little lamb, and its fleece was black as soot, and wherever Mary went, the little lamb was sure to go. How is this for height? Over ???<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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13:15 –<\/span> I just helped Barbara by blowing out a season’s accumulation of leaves in the back yard while she raked. I despise most yard work, but I don’t mind blowing leaves. There’s some interesting math involved, particularly when there’s a breeze and you’re blowing them into tall piles. Barbara is headed over now to her parents’ old house, where she’s meeting the movers. There are a few pieces of furniture there that the movers wanted for themselves, so Barbara offered to meet them there to get them.
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We got an order this morning for a CK01A chemistry kit. I was about to ship the order when I realized that this customer might appreciate being given the option of buying our simpler, less expensive CK01B kit. So I emailed the customer about the availability of the CK01B kit. That got me to thinking. There’s no reason I couldn’t make the kit page live and start accepting orders, so I did. Here it is<\/a>.
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The part about the kits being in stock and ready to ship is even true, although we have only half a dozen of the kits boxed up and ready to ship. The hold-up is one item that’s been on backorder for a long time, a 12-position test tube rack.
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We’ve been shipping chemistry kits with the 40-position PP test tube rack from the BK01 biology kit. It costs a few bucks more than the 12-position rack, but the alternative to not substituting the 40-position would have been to stop shipping chemistry kits. So we just ate the cost difference until the 12-position racks were back in stock.
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The problem is, the CK01A kit ships in a USPS Priority Mail Regional Rate Box B, while the CK01B ships in a smaller RR Box A. The 40-position rack won’t fit in the smaller box, so we can’t build any more CK01B kits until we get the 12-position racks. (I’d put half a dozen of those aside to have available to build a small batch of the CK01B kits.)
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Back in August, our wholesaler told us they’d have the 12-position racks back in stock on 30 November, so we planned around that and left 100 of them on backorder. I emailed them yesterday to ask about status of the 12-position racks, and learned that they’d shipped our backorder on Thursday. They should arrive Monday, so we’ll be ready to build more CK01B kits starting then.
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11:19 – We made a quick trip out to Home Depot this morning to pick up some shelf brackets and 1X12 boards to put up some shelves in the stock room. When we got back, I climbed up on the roof to rake the accumulation of leaves out of the valleys. Barbara’s out there now with her Lawn Lamborghini\u00ae vacuuming them and the rest of the leaves in the yard.\n<\/p>\n

Commenter JimC sent me a link to a fascinating site.<\/p>\n

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